Product engineering firm for mobility, energy, and aerospace hardware
Motivo designs and builds hardware end-to-end—from concept through low-volume production—for capital-intensive industries (mobility, energy, AgTech, aerospace). The stack is heavily embedded (C/C++, FPGA, DSP, CAN, Simulink Coder) and mechanical (SolidWorks, CATIA, CNC), reflecting their core competency in electro-mechanical systems. Engineering dominates the 51–200-person hiring mix, with notable internal effort going toward automating onboarding and cloud infrastructure—suggesting operational scaling pressure as client projects accelerate.
Motivo is a product engineering services firm founded in 2010 and based in Rancho Dominguez, California. They work with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across mobility, energy, AgTech, and aerospace sectors. The firm operates a multidisciplinary team of electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers, supported by in-house fabrication, assembly, and testing capabilities. Their service model spans brainstorming through production-ready delivery, with expertise in complex electro-mechanical integration, computer vision, and control systems.
C/C++, Embedded C, SolidWorks, CATIA, FPGA, DSP, Simulink Coder, CAN, USB, I2C, Ethernet, Python, and oscilloscope-grade instrumentation for embedded design and mechanical modeling.
Complete vehicle engineering builds, aerospace mechanical and control systems, computer vision and ML in AgTech, hardware development projects, plus internal infrastructure automation for onboarding and cloud management.
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